high-impact Staff or Principal Software Engineer

As a senior technical leader, you will balance greenfield architecture with hands-on systems programming and operational resilience. You will also allocate approximately 10-20% of your bandwidth toward high-priority Tier-3 operational escalations, identifying root causes in production distributed systems to inform durable platform architecture.

Note: Final leveling (Staff vs. Principal) will be calibrated during the interview loop based on demonstrated depth of organizational influence, architectural scope, and system design experience.

What You’ll Do

• Architect Distributed SaaS Infrastructure: Design, implement, and scale multi-tenant Kubernetes operators, custom controllers, and orchestration workflows managing thousands of customer database clusters globally.
• Write Resilient Systems Code: Develop performant, fault-tolerant backend services and control planes using modern Go language & Python.
• Lead Cloud Networking Design: Own cross-cloud networking topology, ingress/egress controls, multi-region routing, VPC peering/PrivateLink topologies, DNS architectures, and service mesh performance (Envoy, Cilium, or Istio) across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Support AI Platform Capabilities: Collaborate across business units to build scalable compute, vector indexing pipelines, and ingestion infrastructure supporting real-time GenAI and vector workloads on Helios.
• Production Operations & Tier-3 Escalations: Dedicate 10-20% of your bandwidth to diagnosing complex production issues, acting as the final escalation point for deep infrastructure failures, performance bottlenecks, and kernel/networking anomalies.
• Security & Compliance by Design: Build infrastructure that upholds our strict enterprise compliance posture, maintaining automated controls for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS environments.
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• 8-12+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, deploying, and operating distributed enterprise SaaS platforms at scale.
• Deep Kubernetes Expertise: Hands-on mastery of Kubernetes internals, CRDs, custom controller development (client-go/controller-runtime), scheduling dynamics, and container networking/runtime internals.
• Strong OO / Systems Proficiency: Expert proficiency in Go and Python with an emphasis on concurrent programming, low-latency I/O, and distributed state management.
• Cloud Provider Networking: Deep operational literacy in cloud networking constructs (e.g., Transit Gateways, DirectConnect/ExpressRoute, Private Service Connect, CIDR subnetting, MTLS, and load balancing).
• AI Platform Awareness: Practical familiarity with the compute, caching, and storage dynamics needed for real-time AI/ML pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and vector embeddings.
• Diagnostic Acumen: Proven ability to debug complex, non-deterministic bugs in production across network layers, memory allocations, and distributed consensus.
• Communication & Collaboration: Outstanding written and oral communication skills, with a track record of driving cross-team alignment and influencing executive-level technical strategy., * Prior experience building managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) or data-intensive streaming infrastructure.
• Active open-source contributions within the CNCF or cloud-native container ecosystem.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane).

Posted Yesterday Remote Hiring Remotely in United States 140K-215K Annually Expert/Leader Remote Hiring Remotely in United States 140K-215K Annually Expert/Leader Lead architecture, development, scaling, and reliability for SingleStore Helios, a multi-cloud SaaS platform. Design Kubernetes operators, controllers, networking, routing, and distributed control planes across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Build resilient Go and Python systems, support AI and vector workloads, resolve complex Tier-3 production incidents, and maintain compliance controls. Mentor engineers, author architecture documents, and influence cross-functional technical strategy. The summary above was generated by AI, SingleStore values individuals for their unique skills and experiences, and we’re proud to offer roles in a variety of locations across the United States. Salary is based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location, and is just one part of our total compensation and benefits package. Certain roles are also eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases and annual bonuses.

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